2012 Annual Meeting Western Political Science Association
Portland, Oregon
March 22-24
Panel: The Biopolitical Aesthetic
Drawing inspiration from Fredrick Jameson’s work the Geopolitical Aesthetic (1992), we invite papers that investigate the aesthetic practices of the biopolitical age. Jameson’s work suggested that cinema, in particular, offered access to a geopolitical unconscious. Drawing from Foucault and Deleuze’s work on the biopolitical and geopolitical dispotif, this panel will seek to problematize that insight. The central aim of the panel, therefore, is to investigate the specifics of the biopolitical aesthetic. What does biopolitics look like? How, in other words, are the forms and modalities of rule transformed to meet biopolitical demands to make life live. Is there an aesthetic measure between “life” and “life that lives more?” The panel also seeks to differentiate the geopolitical from the biopolitical aesthetic and understand the ways in which they comingle. Has this differentiation/transformation occurred in/through mediums of art? Has cinema changed to meet this demand? Does digital art offer a new horizon of resistance? Have aesthetic practices intensified into new domains of biopolitical governance of development, policing and governance, reflecting a changed aesthetic? Finally, does a biopolitical distribution of the sensible demand new modes of resistance?
Abstracts of 200 words or less should be submitted to Julian Reid (julian.reid@ulapland.fi) and Geoffrey Whitehall (g.whitehall@acadiau.ca) by September 13, 2011.
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International Political Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award (2012)
The International Political Sociology Section (IPS) of the International Studies Association will institute a yearly award for “best graduate student paper” in the field of international political sociology. The award will be presented at the section’s business meeting at the International Studies Association Annual Convention. The winner will receive a prize of US$150 and a certificate.
The award recognizes a graduate student paper that stands out by its excellence, rigour and originality. The winner of the award will be selected for its contribution to international political sociology, whether in the form of theoretical development, empirical analysis, or both.
Eligible paper can be either single or multi-authored by graduate students only and must have been presented at the ISA annual convention preceding the year of the delivery of the award.
Nominations, with an electronic copy of the paper send to the Chair of the Selection Committee, normally come from faculty supervisors and mentors as well as panel chairs and discussants at the ISA annual convention preceding the year of the delivery of the award. Nominations should be accompanied by a paragraph long justification including the student's name, academic institution, complete contact information, including telephone and e-mail address.
The papers must be received by email by 1 October of the year preceding the convention, and the email should identify the submission with the subject line "IPS Student Paper Award Submission."
The Selection Committee shall be chaired by the IPS Section Chair, who will select one additional external member of the Selection Committee. Two members of the Executive Committee of the IPS Section whose tenure started the year before the prize is delivered will also serve on the Selection Committee. In the event that either of these members are unable to serve on the Committee, they shall be replaced at the discretion of the Chair.
The External Selection Committee member will serve for two years. The Chair of the Committee and the two members of the Executive Committee part of the Selection Committee will serve for one year.
Papers written by, or contributed to, Selection Committee members are ineligible for the award.
The Chair is responsible for coordinating the deliberations of the committee, keeping records of the deliberations, and awarding the prize at the International Studies Association Meeting.
The Selection Committee should feel free to recommend that no award should be made in a given year. If at all possible, the Selection Committee should choose the winning submission and notable papers by consensus. If the Selection committee is unable to reach a consensus, a majority vote will determine the winning submission and notable papers.
The Chair of the Selection Committee must forward to the Executive Committee a recommendation for the Graduate Student Prize Winner, as well as up to two notable papers, including a 100 words citation for each paper, at least a month before the ISA annual meeting when the prize winner will be announced. These results will be published on the International Political Sociology Section website.
The 2012 IPS Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee
Chair:
Xavier Guillaume, University of Geneva (xavier.guillaume@unige.ch)
Department of Political Science and International Relations University of Geneva
40 Bd. Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 GE 4
Switzerland
Selection Committee members:
Vicki Squire, The Open University
Karen Smith, University of Cape Town
Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick
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